Dushmanta’s lover prepares to move court

BHUBANESWAR: The girl, who has brought allegation against Dushmanta for cheating her, is preparing to move family court on Monday here. Whereas, all are in confusion about Dushmanta’s whereabouts that he is in the State or outside.

The reel life hero failed to attend his real life marriage on Sunday. The guests and invitees were talking about a different marriage, where groom was absent from the marriage pandal. The hero of this triangular love story and groom for the marriage had informed to his wife-in-court-paper Kajol on the day of marriage as he is not attending due to illness. While, the girl was standing outside holding a placard in front of the reception place opposing the marriage between Kajol and Dushmanta on that day.

In a latest development, the girl moved to family court in the city to file a petition against Dushmanta. Her advocate Prabhat Kumar Panda informed that they are already prepared for the legal battle. “We will produce all evidences including intimate photographs of the duo and the marriage at the Shani Temple before the court. We want Preety should be declared as wife of Dushmanta,” said Advocate Panda.

  

    

11 injured, 2 critical in road mishap in Ganjam

BRAHMAPUR: 11 injured and two critically injured when a Tata Sumo dashed against a tree near Durgaprasad Ghati at Dadaralunda under Bhanjanagar police station limits on Sunday.

The car, on the way to Berhampur, was coming from Raikia of Kandhamal district crashed against a big tree at the Ghati in the early morning. All the passengers of the car were reportedly in half-sleep state. Due to the tired journey, the driver lost control and dashed against a big tree on the Ghati.

Probe into chlorine gas leak begins

BHUBANESWAR: Inquiry into the chlorine gas leak incident at Niladribihar, started on Sunday here. Out of 20 affected, 15 were discharged and others were under treatment in the Capital Hospital while two other seriously affected due to expose to chlorine gas are under the treatment of a private hospital in the city.

The Government is providing free treatment to the affected people. “The condition of two affected people was very critical, the treatment is on. Their condition is improving,” said Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Capital Hospital Dr S N Swain.

On Saturday evening, the incident happened due to leakage when chlorine was being mixed for water purification in a water tank of PHED near Ishaneswar temple at Niladribihar under Chandrasekharpur Police station limits. While loading the gas, a washer of the cylinder was broken, this led the leakage.

After the leakage, gas immediately spread to the vicinity of a nearby slum area, where people use to come to the tank for taking water. Two women along with one Mukund Digal found unconscious near the tank. After getting information the fire station officials reached at the spot and rescued the people. The affected people rushed to Capital Hospital and admitted in the Disaster Management Ward, said police.    

Speed governor in Auto rickshaw opposed

BHUBANESWAR: Proposal for the implementation of speed governor in Auto rickshaw by the Department of Transportation, strongly opposed by different associations of Auto rickshaw drivers in the city.

The associations of Auto rickshaws will go for a strike throughout the state by December 5, if Government denies to rollback the decision.        

While State Transportation Department decided to implement the rule for using of Speed Governors in the Auto rickshaw by December 3, which will govern the speed of the vehicle and it will check the accidents.

Auto drivers’ association is not satisfied with the decision and it questioned that without their knowledge, the Transportation Department has taken the decision.

Twist in love, marriage and dhoka allegation against Dushmanta

… Dushmanta’s marriage on Sunday 

BHUBANESWAR: Hero got married to heroine as usual. But after few days a third person, a girl, came into the scene who is claiming that her marriage with the hero was already over and they were living with each other for a couple of months. So she needs justice from hero’s family. But the family did not agree with the girl and get her out from their home. The girl complained to the police against the hero and demanded arrest of her alleged husband. You might be thinking that it is a short film review of a film or a family drama, but nothing like that. It is not reel but real story of Odia film actor Dushmanta and the girl Rashmita.

The girl Rashmita, who lives at Dumduma housing board, complained at the Women’s Commission here against Dushmanta on Wednesday here for cheating her. According to the girl they had met with each other in a function. From that meeting the love chemistry had started between the two and then they got married and live like husband and wife. But Dushmanta denied the involvement and cheating allegation made by the girl.

In a recent development wife of Dushmanta in court paper film actress Kajol has come forward to save her husband. She complained against the girl that she is getting threaten from her through a mobile number. “I’ll not give Dushmanta’s hand to any other girl’s hand at any cost. If she creates any unwanted situation, forcefully I’ll take action against her,” said Kajol to the media on Saturday.

On the other side, medical tests of Rashmita have been done on Friday. While on Saturday she, along with her classmate, sat on a dharna in front of the women’s police station here demanding action against her lover Dushmanta for cheating her. She alleged that police is not taking any action against Dushmanta after lodging FIR in the police station.

Today is the much-awaited controversial marriage between Kajol and Dushmanta. Whereas, the girl is not ready to accept the marriage and threatened to stop the marriage, otherwise she will immolate her life in that marriage place. Time will tell, what will be the final decision.  

     

Sudhir Sabat nominated as state convener of CACL

Berhampur: Director of the Indian Society for Rural Development (ISRD) and an eminent child rights activist Sudhir Sabat has been conferred with the State Convener ship of Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL). He was elected unanimously in a State meeting at Bhubaneswar by the activists who are working on child rights and campaigning against child labour.

Sabat, the National Youth Award winner and a former students’ union president of Berhampur University also closely associated with different state and national level forums. In 1986 Sri Sabat formed ISRD, through which he has rendered commendable service to educationally backward southern districts. At present he is discharging his responsibilities as State Convener of CHILDLINE and as Coordinator of Bharat Gyan Bigyan Samiti (BGVS).

Soon after taking office as state convener of CACL Sri Sabat said that it is now first and foremost duty to advocate and lobby at different levels for cent percent implementation of the Juvenile Justice Act. Sabat, concluded by stating that by collective measures he will leave no stone unturned to bring necessary changes in the Child Labour Prohibition & Regulatory Act.  .

ODA Manch seeks NCSC’s plea in cracker explosion case

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Dalit Adhikar Manch (ODAM), who came forward to fight for justice for the victims of cracker explosion at Kujang, requested National Commission for Schedule Castes (NCSC) to interfere in the case.

A team of human rights activists consisting of Simanchala Nayak, Kalandi Mallik, Prashant Mallik and Rajkishore Nayak of ODAM have collected information by visiting the families of the victim Bharat Patra (20) and Pituna Patra (17) on November 22. They also met some Government officials to collect the necessary information on the matter.

They claimed that the victims of the cracker explosion incident were of ‘Dom’ community of Schedule Caste category, who are daily labourers and landless poor. “For adequate compensation, along with proper settlement, and a high level inquiry into the incident we want the NCSC’s intervention”, they added.   

‘The rights of women are also human rights’

BHUBANESWAR: “The role of Government and the intervention of media, to create awareness among the women and highlight the issues about the domestic violence act, are very important. Government should give stress on the post-implementation of the Act,” said the secretary of Friends’ Association for Rural Reconstruction (FARR) Pramila Swain in a press meet on ‘International campaign fortnight to combat violence against women’ here on Friday.

International campaign fortnight or the 16 days of activism against gender violence is an international campaign. The campaign period starts from November 25 which is International day against violence against women and ends with December 10- International Human Rights Day. The campaign emphasizes that violence against women is violation of human rights. It says about strengthening local work around violence against women, demonstrating the solidarity of women around the world against violence against women, creating tools to pressure governments to implement promises made to eliminate violence against women and at last to create awareness from the grassroots level to the world level.

The veteran social activists of the State opined, ‘The rights of women are also human rights’ in the press meet organized by Civil Society Resource Facility (CSRF) supported by Oxfam India. They said that nearly 164 countries have been participating in the 16 days campaign since 1991.

The themes of this year are bringing together women, peace, and human rights movements to challenge militarism, proliferation of small arms and their role in domestic violence, sexual violence in and after conflict, political violence against women, sexual and gender-based violence committed by state agents, particularly the police or military. The organization appealed to the media to highlight the women related issues particularly regarding violence against women.

“All districts are facing the problem in implementation due to dual responsibility of protection officers, lack of synergy among stakeholders like protection officers, the court the court and service providers, service of notice within 3 days, lack of awareness about the act on a massive scale etc.”, said secretary Pramila while inaugurating the press meet. 

A veteran activist and State coordinator of NAWO said the administration is becoming person centric as development initiatives are being taken within a particular person’s period, if the person has interest on the field which is not a healthy trend. It should be system centric, where any officer who comes will work on the problems raised by women. 

40 agitating city bus workers held, bus service resumes

BHUBANESWAR: Following two days strike by Dream Team-run city bus employees demanding their reinstatement and over time wages, police arrested 40 agitating employees on the third days of their strike on Friday here. After the arrest, city buses have started plying in the capital and its other routes.

On Thursday, keeping eye on security of the buses, along with drivers and conductors, the operators had cancelled the bus service from all the routes. While the sacked employees with present staff sat on a dharna at the Master Canteen depot opposing misbehave and imposing of fine without showing any appropriate reason of the company officials.

Protesting the police arrest, CITU members and supporters agitated in front of the office of Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCP) here to release the arrested city bus workers. The organization said the police have not done justice by arresting the innocent city bus workers, who were demanding for their cause.

After two and half days’ discontinue service of city buses, finally it resumed its service which relaxed the commuters of the city along with the outside passengers.   

  

     

Workers’ strike hits City bus service

BHUBANESWAR: More than half of the Dream Team run city bus cancelled its service in the city along with Cuttack, Puri and Khurda due to strike by its employees on Wednesday.

Some of the bus employees who were suspended before along with the present staffs sat on dharna. They did not join in the work. They alleged that the officials of City bus service are giving overloaded work of 16 hours in the place of 8 hours duty. “The City bus administration is also imposing fine over them without showing any appropriate reasons and sometimes it behaves like a dictator,” they alleged. If the administration would not listen to our demand, the strike will continue till the demand is fulfilled, said the protesters. 

On the other hand, the City bus administration said the protesters were not our staffs now, most of them were sacked from the service due to indiscipline behaves in their work. Some of them were resigned from the service and so on. They are motivating other working staffs for the strike and some working staffs were also joined in the agitation.

Due to the strike, people witnessed lot of problems as the City bus service remains the lifeline for the commuters. Most of the passengers were not aware about the employees’ strike which disappointed them.

   

Salia sahi’s mass rally against displacement

“We can die for the land, but we won’t give a single inch of land to the corporate company”, it was the slogan against displacement by the slum peoples of Salia sahi on Tuesday from starting to the end of the procession and rally in front of the State Secretariat here.

“Salia sahi people don’t want any flat except Land Patta of 20x30 in their slum area. They need their basic rights to live in their land, not displacement”, said the advisor of Basti Surakhya Manch Shivram to The Pioneer.

Already a team consisting of 7 members from Salia sahi regional committee had given a letter of 14 chartered demands to the Chief Minister and Urban Development Minister. “If the Government starts demolition in the slum area of Salia sahi after this protest and request, the Kalinga Nagar situation will repeat again at Salia sahi”, cautioned the Salia sahi Regional Committee for the protection of the slum.       

Thousands of protesters took part in the mass rally following a procession that started from Mailatanki square of Salia sahi and culminated at the PMG square by crossing Jaydev bihar square, Ram Mandir square. The protesters flaunted placards bearing slogans against displacement from the slum.

To give solidarity to the demonstration by Salia street, the slum development committees  of Maa Santoshi Nagar, Maa Mangala Nagar, May fair Nagar, Trinath Nagar, Srikrishna Nagar, Swadhin Nagar, Mahabir Nagar, Maruti Bihar, Satyanarayana Nagar, Adivasi Gaon in the city were participated in the mass rally.   

OIIFT presents Fashion show “Destination Odisha”

Bhubaneswar: Orissa Institute of Interior and Fashion Technology (OIIFT), a premier fashion and interior designing institute i going to organize a fashion show “Destination Odisha” with the help of CII and NIIT on November 26 in Exhibition Ground here. All the designs are prepared by the students of OIIFT as it is the creative learning process of the students.

The sequences are conceived, conceptualized, stitched and made ready all by the fashion designed students under the guidance of their faculties. All the sequences will be based on the tradition of Odisha. Among the 12 sequences, kids from SAI International School will walk on the ramp. In other sequences, the nationally and internationally famous models will take part in the show.

Before, they had organized a fashion show in 2009. This year 55 second year students from Odisha and Jamshedpur Institution will take part in the show as the designer. Among the renowned models and designers JC Randhwa, Sonia Birtia, Pritam Panda are attending the show. Famous sizzling dancer Antara Biswas will perform dance in the show.

  

Action against J’suguda MLA’s atrocity on Dalit demanded

Bhubaneswar: Demanding proper action against Jharsuguda MLA Naba Kishore Das in connection with assaulting of a Dalit youth, National Confederation of Dalit Organisations (NCDO) organized a mass rally at PMG square here on Saturday.

According to NCDO President Ashok Kumar Malik, a dalit youth Trinath Gayel was beaten up by the MLA of Jharsuguda Naba Kishore Das on May 24 this year in the District Magistrate’s office regarding the implementation and speed up of development works for Dalits in the area. After a few minutes argument taking the matter of the use of MLA lad fund the MLA had attacked the youth in front of the District Magistrate.

“We demanded the government to take necessary action against the MLA by arranging different rallies and protest meetings, but we did not get any satisfactory reply from any quarter. So that we came out with a mass protest rally to attract the attention of the Chief Minister to take further steps to check the violation of Dalit rights by stopping such types of heinous attack on us”, Malik said.

Hundreds of protesters were taken part in the mass protest rally following the procession starting from Master Canteen to Lower PMG by holding the placards bearing the slogans against Naba Das. They handed over the memorandum to the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to solve their problems.

                                                                                            

“We need justice. It is not the insult of the particular youth; it’s the insult of all Dalits. It’s the time of raising voice against the violation of our rights. If the government will not take any action against the assaulter, then the movement will be continued till our demand is fulfilled”, said Dalit leader Gobardahan while addressing the mass.       

News space selling is a dangerous tradition

Berhampur: “Political party sponsored and individual ownership of media has changed the dimension of media as the money minded management sometimes decides the fate of news. Some media organizations are selling spaces for favorable coverage which is a dangerous tradition”, said veteran journalist and editor of ‘The Naveen’ Ravi Rath on the occasion of National Press Day celebrated by Media and journalists Association (MAJA) on Wednesday at its Gosaninuagaon office here.

MAJA a journalists’ club established in 2010 by some professional journalists of the city. Gracing the occasion, chief guest of the meeting Rath said that the fourth pillar of the constitution is in miserable condition in Odisha, especially the small and medium newspapers. Still now the state government has not done anything for the journalists. The journalists are yet to get pension.

Another guest editor of ‘The Dakhina Barta’ Sudhansu Panda lamented that most of the reporters and journalists are only covering events, functions, but not interested in deep reporting like interpretative and investigative which unearth the real truth from an incident and issue.

Among others, STV Berhampur Center-in-charge and president of MAJA Sanat Panda, editor of ‘The Paryatan Bharat’ Narayana Mahankuda, ADPRO Berhampur Rabi Behera along with other journalists were present in the occasion.

Similarly, a seminar was organized in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of Berhampur University on the occasion of National Press Day. Head of the department Dr Pradeep Chandra Mahapatra gracing the occasion advised the media students to adopt the new positive trend in journalism as the media scenario is changing day to day. He also informed that the importance of Citizen Jounalism is increasing now days.

On the occasion, students of the department presented their media related seminar paper. Guest lecturer Jagan Mohan Mahapatra and Sanat Panda were present in the seminar. Some journalists were shared their field experiences with the students.